20/20 Photo Festival & THE HALIDE PROJECT present:
Fractured Lands

Presented in conjunction with the 20/20 Photo Festival, Fractured Lands brings together the work of artists Ella Morton and Dafna Talmor in an evocative two-person exhibition at The Halide Project. This exhibition is part of The Halide Project’s ongoing commitment to analog and historic process photography, and coincides with this year’s 20/20 Photo Festival theme of “structures.” Morton's work was selected for exhibition at the 2024 Experimental Photo Festival portfolio reviews.

Curated by Dale Rio, Fractured Lands examines how photographic destruction becomes a generative act. Both artists begin with analog images of landscapes and then physically intervene in their materials to reconstruct new images that challenge traditional notions of landscape photography. Morton uses the Japanese technique of kintsugi to piece together broken images of Arctic environments, drawing attention to the critical state of the natural world. Talmor slices and reassembles her “failed” negatives into complex composite images, transforming discarded material into a master negative and interrogating the assumptions and colonial histories embedded in landscape photography.

Special programming includes Light Talks with each artist: Talmor will speak on Monday, September 22 at 5:00 pm, followed by Morton on Monday, October 20 at 7:00 pm.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Ella Morton is a Toronto-based artist whose expedition practice has brought her to residencies and projects across Canada, Scandinavia, Latin America, Greenland, and Antarctica. She uses experimental analogue processes to capture the sublime and fragile qualities of remote landscapes. She aims to uncover how photographs can show more than a straightforward depiction of reality, and how the alchemy of analog techniques can be reinvented in the present day to tell deeper stories within images.
www.ellamorton.com

Dafna Talmor is a London-based artist and lecturer whose work focuses on photography, video, curation, and collaborative projects. Her ongoing series, Constructed Landscapes, transforms everyday snapshots of landscapes into abstract, contemplative spaces that challenge how we experience and interpret landscape photography. Talmor’s photographs are held in collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum and Deutsche Bank, and her work has been featured in major publications and international exhibitions.
www.dafnatalmor.com